Laura Wills, Lisa Smith, Lindsay Wills and Sarah Moundroukas are Pony Up – or the Ponies as their friends and fans often refer to them. The Montreal-based quartet formed on New Year's Eve 2002 and released a self-titled EP in 2005.

Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes was the first full-length album from Pony Up. And what an album it was – totally brimming with clever lyrics, super catchy songs and a heap of vibrancy, it was an exhilarating collection of great pop tunes. To promote the album the band toured Australia extensively in the summer of 2006. People loved them live and they loved them on radio to the point where their single The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die) would later be voted #47 on Triple J's Hottest 100.

Over the course of the next two years Pony Up toured and toured and toured, those stints included supporting The Mountain Goats and Camera Obscura as well as performing a swag of dates in the U.K. and Europe for the first time. Later that year Lisa Smith and Laura Wills joined the touring lineup of The Dears. Oh yeah, and in between all this activity Lisa, Lindsay, Laura and Sarah found time to write and record a new album., Stay Gold.

Recorded in Montreal with producer Murray Lightburn (singer/song-writer/producer of the Dears.) Stay Gold takes Pony Up into the stratosphere with more developed textures and arrangements, even finer hook-laden songs, and a sense of total exuberance. Lightburn has reincarnated the music in his own pop-noir-romantique image, honing and edifying Pony Up’s arrangements and soundscapes. The sonic topography has become detailed, ornate and sprawling. You’ll hear it on songs such as Manchild, Sounds Like My Wedding Night, A Crutch Or A Cradle and the album’s first single, the totally captivating Charles.

Now, get ready for the really big news - Pony Up return to Australia in June to promote Stay Gold. The Pony Up Express is only weeks away from leaving Montreal and heading across the sea to Australia. Be ready Pony Up fans.

Joining Pony Up on tour are Laughing Outlaw Records label mates The Devoted Few, whose latest album ‘Baby, You’re A Vampire’ has been the band’s most acclaimed and successful release to date with everyone from the Sydney Morning Herald to every major street press screaming its achievements. In the SMH Bernard Zuel gave the album 4/5 stars and said it was “stuffed with impassioned grabs for your heart with classic build-and-swell arrangements, vocals that feel wrenched by Ben Fletcher’s guts and the kind of hearty tunes that lodge with you . . . when you make music that sounds like it matters deeply to you, the rest of us will come along.” Reviewer Jeff Jenkins comments in his 4/5 star review in the current issue of Music Australia Guide, that Baby, You’re A Vampire is “one of 2009’s great rock records.”

With single Trigger Fingers receiving heavy radio play on JJJ and major community stations The Devoted Few rocked their recent album tour with exhilarating shows across the East Coast. FasterLouder claim: “There’s only a small number of bands in this country who play every show like they’re playing at AAMI stadium, and it’s those bands I’ll see any day of the week. Ben Fletcher is one of Australia’s most charismatic front men, and the band he has assembled just get better every time we see them.”

With these kind of accolades flying thick and fast for The Devoted Few and one of Canada’s finest hitting our shores to fly their own flag, these shows are going to be earning their own praises come June.